?? Exacta - The Friendly Survey People ??

They are brokers, and aren't viewed very favorably in Ohio. If I recall correctly, they've changed their name a time or two, but not their mo.

I think they started in Ohio, then came to Florida. I'm pretty sure they operate on the broker/"contract crew" model in Florida.

I just saw one of their plats about two weeks ago. Their address was Maryland. It took a minute to figure out if it was a survey and by whom. The plat had the realtor's photo and company information, the title company's information at the top, and the surveyor's was near the bottom and not as prominent.

I don't agree with their conclusions and I didn't like the coupon on the second page for 25% the next survey on the same parcel in the future. I showed it to a couple of other surveyors in the area and nobody liked it. A couple even said they had trouble sleeping that night thinking about it.

I hope they don't come to my area anymore.

They don't sound like a good company. We have enough bad survey's out there. A company like this is very likely to survey without local knowledge, and at cut rate prices. You get what you pay for, but the general public doesn't understand that. They just look at a few hundred in savings. In Wa state it was real bad in a few areas. We had unlicensed guys doing surveys. They said they were just locating corners, not setting anything. I had to do jobs near them. They created huge errors, and charged 1/2 to 1/3 of a surveyor. The residents seemed to prefer them, and thought the Licensed guys were creating the trouble. Not saying Exacta is that bad, but I can see future court battles with a company like them.

Yeah ... and who would want to defend in court a survey with coupons and realtor ads on it? It sounds like place mat at a diner.

LOL Good Point.

LOL good one Pseudo.:-)

This illustrates the problem of our ad-hoc system of Survey control. Other forms of infrastructure have a more structured approach. The sewer district owns, operates and maintains the local sewer system. The water district or company does the same. No one paves over their valve boxes and manholes.

Our system is left to whoever Joe Public hires on a low bid basis to go out and ram a rebar into the ground. A local City went and destroyed dozens of pipes and rebars in the street. The City Engineer finally got threatened with enforcement action so they had to hire a Surveyor to attempt to put them back where they were (not simple due to somewhat large random errors). When it is pointed out to the City Engineer that they ought to put those back in monument wells they say but that costs $3k each. They would never flinch at a few grand to put their water valve in a box but the most valuable thing out there, the land net, is just left to whatever unlicensed union chief happens along with a calculator.

Some Cities and Counties are better about this and require monument wells so the monuments don't get paved over or worse, destroyed.